Buzz Osborne Quotes & Sayings

“I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.”

“I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.”

“By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.”

“I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.”

“Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.”

“I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.”

“I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.”

“I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.”

“I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.”

“The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.”